Colin J Carlson

Colin Carlson

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Education

M.S., University of Connecticut, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (2013)

B.S., University of Connecticut, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; B.A., Environmental Studies (2012)

Research Interests / Specializations:

Spatial ecology; ecological modeling; climate change; extinction risk; host-parasite interactions

Research Description:

I am broadly interested in processes of extinction driven by climate change, and the impact biodiversity loss has on the emergence of infectious diseases. In particular my research focuses on the development of statistical models fitted from community ecology data that test: (1) the extinction risk different parasites face at broad biogeographic scales, (2) the link between parasite biodiversity and the dilution of virulent pathogens at the metacommunity scale, and (3) the epidemiology and community ecology of emerging zoonotic diseases like Ebola hemorrhagic fever.

Selected Publications

Dougherty, E.R.*, C.J. Carlson*, V.M. Bueno, K.R. Burgio, C.A. Cizauskas, C.F. Clements, D.P. Seidel, and N.C. Harris. (2015) Paradigms for parasite conservation. Conservation Biology: in press.

Getz, W.M., J.-P. Gonzalez, R. Salter, J. Bangura, C.J. Carlson, M. Coomber, E. Dougherty, D. Kargbo, N.D. Wolfe, and N. Wauquier. (2015) Tactics and strategies for managing Ebola outbreaks and the salience of immunization. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine 2015: 9p. doi: 10.1155/2015/736507.

C.J. Carlson, et al. (2013) The more parasites, the better? Science 342 (6162): 1041.

Landberg, T., C. J. Carlson, et al. (2010) Natural History Notes: Chelydra serpentina serpentina L. (Eastern Snapping Turtle). Survival after injury. Herpetological Review 41(1):70-71.

Honors and Awards

Pacific Standard "30 under 30" (2015)

Pearson Prize National Fellowship (2011)

Harry S. Truman Scholarship (2011)

Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship (2011)

Morris K. Udall Scholarship (2010)

Recent Teaching:

UC Berkeley:

Modeling & Management of Natural Resources (ESPM 104) - Fall 2014 & 2015

Quantitative Aspects of Global Environmental Problems (ER 102) - Spring 2015

University of Connecticut:

Foundations of Biology (BIOL 1102) - Spring 2013

Evolutionary Biology (EEB 2245) - Fall 2012

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Colin Carlson

E-mail: cjcarlson@berkeley.edu

Research Group(s):

Wayne Getz Group

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